News: Khan meets Kylie

Monday 18 December 2006

Akram Khan has choreographed a new section for Kylie Minogue’s new Showgirl Homecoming tour, which comes to the UK in January. Four songs – Finer Feelings, Confide in Me, Cowboy Style and Too Far — have been blended into a mini creation myth. “It was based on images of gods, and the idea of her being made by the gods out of four elements, but wanting to be separated from her creators: a human being, not a puppet.”

He talks about working with Kylie last summer, shortly after she had been given the all clear after breast cancer. Read more in the Sunday Times, 17 Dec 06